cause he had gotten into trouble in this way, 
but I have heard that the next time he went to 
the house, Grandpa took his gun and went out 
to the chicken yard because he thought that the 
skunk had come back for another chicken. 
Robin Hood, if we may be so bold as to call 
him a real leader of a band of jays, was certainly 
a successful one; for during the entire time that 
he made himself so prominent in the jay troop 
with which he traveled, only one member of the 
band lost his life and that came about in this 
way. 
About half a mile down the road from Grandpa 
Strong’s house there lived a cross old Swede and 
his wife. They had no children and the neigh- 
bors all said that this man was a very disagree- 
able person to deal with. He was quarrelsome 
and appeared not to like anybody or anything. 
He even objected to birds singing around his 
house and said they were a nuisance. One day 
Robin Hood and his friends came across the 
fields and alighted in the elm trees which stood 
in front of the house. They were particularly 
boisterous on this occasion. They must have 
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